Writing Arduino Code using Visual Studio and Visual Micro

In this video we look at jumping up from the standard Arduino IDE and take a stab at programming use Microsoft's Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 and third-party extension Visual Micro. We also look at how to put our code under source code control using GitHub.

[cgme]

Got mine up and running!
Super awesome that Visual Micro exists, because I was getting sick of the default IDE that came with the Arduino.

[skynet]

Very nice and well explained. Regards from Germany...

[RyanStokesGOVFL]

TY for the vid! Wish the breakpoint would illuminate on pause.

[juggalizzle]

Does visual micro fix the microsoft arduino plugin problem of having include errors for basic arduino stuff? I use an arduino ide plugin for a board that uses a lot of custom libraries. The editor in vs code will crash on more advanced programs I'm assuming because of thousands of include errors generated from ms arduino plugin for vs code. A simple program with minimal defines gives 30+ errors and complains about adding include path in settings. Which is not recursive. When dealing with 1000s of includes this is unacceptable. So basically does the plugin look in the root project folder and search recursively for includes?

[raydavis]

Some info on how VisualMicro integrates with the existing Arduino environment would have been helpful. The default Arduino IDE environment is itself somewhat mysterious just in itself.

[Sean-clko]

Good video, just could have done with high quality or larger font :)

[ayojohnson]

Did anyone get Visual Micro for Mac ? If yes how ?

[aldrichuy]

I am getting an annoying error message "Invalid Ide Location settings"

[matthwc]

thanks for the great video, i was using Clion but decided to switch to vs2017 because it has this Aduino extension, just a few questions.
I did exactly what you did in the video but when i put a breakpoint (in debug mode) you had two buttons pop up to continue to the next breakpoint and so on. those buttons never popped up for me. is it because i didn't install the Github extension or some other reason?
as far as i can tell this extension doesn't allow you to set the Arduino as ISP to program an ATTINY85 chip, am I right or is there a way to do it? oh wait i just found the setting to allow
lastly is there a way to change the function colors? for example in the arduino IDE the functions digitalWrite and pinMode show up orange. is there a way to set the color of the text for this extension?

[RodrigoSantos-ggdr]

Does anybody knows how to watch the variables while debugging ?

[evgenyzhekaus]

Looks like, this debugger allows break points in the main .ino file only. Not very useful, to be honest.

[qzorn]

great video.. i am a hobbist and i thought that was the point of the arduino like tho teach kids logic stuff.. so are people going pass that and that is why the to pay version of Vmicro" thanks..:)